Volume 30 Number 3

We are pleased to announce that Wound Practice and Research has become a Diamond Open Access journal. Diamond Open Access means that all papers accepted for publication in the journal are immediately made available to readers free of cost and no charges are incurred by authors to publish in the journal.

Wounds Australia recognises the importance of making valuable wound research available to readers free of charge and without any hidden costs and believes that financial barriers should never be a reason to remove access to the latest research and innovations in wound research. By publishing research contributed by some of the best wound researchers in the world under the format of Diamond Open Access, Wounds Australia aims to help disseminate new innovations and knowledge to the global wound community.

The growing awareness of the importance of open access publication is highlighted by the recent announcement by Australia’s peak funding body, the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC), which announced on 20th September 2022 that it was the first Australian funding agency to introduce the requirement that scholarly publications arising from the research it funds be made freely available and accessible. This is in line with a growing international shift towards open access publishing, including the recent announcement by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy that all United States (US) funding agencies are required to adopt open access publishing policies without embargoes by 31 December 2025. 

Open Access enhances the visibility and impact of published papers with articles being downloaded and cited more frequently than articles from non-Open Access journals. Open Access also enables research published in WPR to reach new readers, including policymakers, non-government agencies, the media, educators and other practitioners.

We are confident that our Diamond Open Access publishing policy will help attract new authors to publish their valuable research in Wound Practice and Research and will look forward to sharing freely their research to all our readers both in Australia and across the world.

Professor Allison Cowin

Coloplast Biatain Literary Award Winners 2021

Original Research Article

First Robyn Rayner, Keryln Carville, Joanna Smith and Cate Maguire. The STAR classification: utility for determining healing times and dressing costs associated with skin tear management.

Runner-up Tomonori Maeda, Nao Tamai, Takeo Minematsu, Hiroshi Noguchi, Koichi Yabunaka, Gojiro Nakagami, Mitsuso Neya and Hiromi Sanada The relationship between pressure injuries and dynamic buttock pressure distributions during performance in wheelchair basketball athletes.

Literature Review/Clinical Practice

First Colin J Ireland, Lemuel J Pelentsov, and Zlatko Kopecki. Caring for a child with Epidermolysis Bullosa: a scoping review on the family impacts and support needs.

Runner-up Rochelle Kurmis, Michael Woodward, Hayley Ryan and Jan Rice. The importance of nutrition in wound management: new evidence from the past decade.

Case Study/Series

First Tolga Kalayci, Esra Yaprak, Mustafa Yeni and İlker Uçar. Review of necrotising fasciitis of Pfannenstiel incision with a case report.

Author(s)

Allison J Cowin
Editor, Wound Practice and Research